About Elementary & Social Studies Education
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Introduction of Social Studies Program Timeline
The Social Studies Program in the Department of Elementary and Social Studies Education was established as a separate degree program when the Teacher Education components of the College of Education were re-organized beginning in 1966. The department name was Social Science Education and the degree programs reflected that name. The faculty chose to use “Social Science” rather than “Social Studies” to indicate a commitment to the separate disciplines approach. The current faculty chose to rename the Program and degrees to “Social Studies” when the College was re-organized in 2004. While the current faculty still honors the idea of separate disciplines, there is now recognition that we also represent a more integrated approach as reflected in the Definition developed by the National Council for the Social Studies in 1994.
The timeline history begins with the creation of the Department of Social Science Education and includes Faculty and significant Events that have enabled the Program to become the only remaining separate Social Studies degree granting program in the country. Hopefully, in the next century of the College, the Social Studies program will continue to be a separate and vibrant component of the College of Education at The University of Georgia.
The information in the table below was compiled from memories of current faculty, the dissertation by Teresa Sorrell, Marion Jennings Rice, Philosophy and Praxis, and history of the College of Education by Bob W. Jerrolds, The History of the College of Education, The University of Georgia. The timeline includes the national and international events that helped develop the reputation of the Department and Program. So, the timeline does not include all the events that happened during the last forty-one years. There is one major role the Department and Program played in the State which needs special recognition. Since the founding of the Georgia Council for the Social Studies (formally Georgia Council for the Social Science), faculty have been President of the organization, Executive Director, Editor of the Georgia Council for the Social Science Journal, and Conference Chairs for many of the yearly meetings held in the Fall of each academic year. While this work did not produce national or international recognition to the Department and Program, it did provide much needed assistance to the State as is the role of the Land Grant University.
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